<VV> Production Numbers

[rbuckridge at comcast.net]

Seeing all the posts about production numbers and the this & that which follows these posts, I am some what surprised. 

I thought the VV list would be littered with a bunch of old guys who know or knew what took place. For me it was this; 

When I was looking around for a car, I wanted a new car but that was a little too much of a stretch for me so I looked at year old cars. To make a long story short, I settled on a one year old 1963 black & black Monza coupe with a 102 / 4 speed, radio & heater and the mirror package. Mirror package means you got the left side door mirror with the day night interior mirror. The Monza had 16,000 miles on it. 

Why did I go for the Corvair? It was a Chevy, but it was a CHEAP, AFFORDABLE car. Not because it ran great around corners, not for the sporty image, but because it was affordable. 

Would I have liked to own a V8 Chevelle or Impala SS, or better yet a Corvette? Of course I would. But all I could afford was the Corvair. 

I grew to love my Corvair and all the things that set it aside from the rest of the market. For the small band of Corvair lovers, we hoped GM would go more to the American Porsche as the Corvair evolved, but they didn't and it seemed clear why. 

Gas was cheap and everyone wanted horsepower. Drag racing and street racing were very big. Sports cars and sporty cars were a minor part of the market. Horsepower was king and at 25 - 30 a gallon for gas, who cared what the gas mileage was as long as the 0 - 60 or quarter mile times were good. 

My little Corvair ran L/S ( stock class with a manual trans) at Englishtown. There aren't too many classes below L/S. 

To see the Camaro and Nova push the Corvair more to the back burner was no surprise, but for the people who owned a Corvair, yea, we loved them then as we love them now. 

Roy in Bayville